A homepage for my hillwalking photos
Ruth and I took our cousin Xavier to the Lake District for a weekend of camping and hillwalking. We stayed at Gillside Farm in Glenridding, and enjoyed walks up Helvellyn (by the Edges) and Place Fell.
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For the remainder of our Alpine holiday, we headed northeast across the Austrian border to Stubaital. Volderau proved a convenient (if very wet in the evening!) base for some very spectacular and varied mountain walks and a couple of days’ mountaineering on Zuckerhütl, Wilder Pfaff and Wilder Freiger.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LqFQKnygSKntx1iS9
For the first few days of this year’s Alpine adventure, we headed to the beautiful Stelvio National Park in the Südtirol region of northern Italy. Based in Trafoi, we enjoyed three day walks to acclimatise and then tackled the easy glaciated peak of Monte Cevedale.
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I visited my parents in Minehead for a long weekend. We enjoyed local walks from from Withypool, Wimbleball Lake and Lynton.
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I spent a sweltering sunny weekend exploring some of the hills of western Shropshire, including the Marilyns of Corndon Hill, Heath Mynd and Stiperstones, and numerous Tumps.
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With Ruth suffering from a knee injury, much of my trip to the Highlands for Spring Bank Holiday week this year was solo. I therefore opted to focus on collecting some of my unbagged Munro Tops around Glen Affric and Glen Shiel, then relocated to Glen Shiel for the final couple of days to bag Corbetts and Grahams in Glen Suileag and Glen Roy. In the middle of the trip, I met up with Ian and Emma for a wet day on Beinn Fhada and a glorious sunny one on The Saddle.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LbLQYjePCfiPhAoo7
I made a day trip to South Staffordshire (right down to the west of Birmingham) to tick off my last few Staffordshire Tumps, culminating on the very scenic ridge of Kinver Edge.
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I went for a walk on The Roaches with my cousin Xavier.
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I ticked off a few more Staffordshire Tumps, this time around Kidsgrove. Only eight now remain to be bagged, which should be doable in a single day at the southern end of the county.
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I spent Easter weekend in the southern Cairngorms, bagging a few new Munro Tops and Corbetts, and re-visiting a few Munros.
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My parents visited for a few days. At the weekend we enjoyed glorious sunny weather for two great walks in the Peak District.
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With a sunny forecast, I made an impromptu weekend trip to the Lake District. On the Saturday, I joined Andrena and Ruth for a long, snowy ridge walk along the Eastern Fells from Ambleside to St John’s in the Vale. On the Sunday, I walked solo from Langdale.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tfqaZdNUGDwN9Ac86
I visited Alex and Ausma for another excellent long weekend, spending a day walking in the Black Forest then three days walking and snowshoeing in the Swiss Alps, based in Küblis.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/9XjZKNESAyDagxwBA
I spent a day in the countryside around Leek, ticking off eight more Staffordshire Tumps in warm, sunny weather.
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I visited Dave and Jo in Skipton for the weekend, taking the opportunity to bag three of their nearby Marilyns: Sharp Haw, Ilkley Moor and Boulsworth Hill.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y8JWNjG2H16Crgex9
I visited Ian and Emma in Kendal for the weekend. We walked on the Coniston Fells (from Dunnerdale) on the Saturday and on Wansfell on the Sunday morning. I also had time to bag the Marilyn of Claife Heights before heading home.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/e4YpT12gXWCUZntw5
I made the most of a sunny winter day by heading to the Dark Peak for an anticlockwise 20-mile round of the Edale skyline, starting in Hope.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/bUYWRNH5anSfpDZw9
I spent a few hours visiting a few Tumps west and northwest of Stafford; they’re not close enough together to sensibly connect on foot so a series of short walks and intervening drives was the order of the day!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Pov6ehkarERRKTFT7
I spent rather a grey day bagging a few more Staffordshire Tumps, starting in Keele village.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/GMHBDDSnYY1oMzWh6
This year’s Youngish Duffers’ New Year Trip went across the sea to the Isle of Mull, where we stayed in the comfortable Salen Pier House. Reasonable weather, for the most part, allowed me to visit eight of the island’s nine peaks over 2000ft.
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